Contributors

TRC is proud to introduce you to independent writers and artists who contribute to our shared cultural dialogue during the most amazing, pivotal moments in global human history.

Contributors

Lee Camp

     What can we say about Lee Camp? Greg Palast says it best, “Lee Camp has found the hole in America’s brain where reason has been replaced by Wal-Mart. Lee’s rants channel the gunk oozing out. You have to admit, that’s why he’s so fucking funny.”  With a Gonzo style all his own, TRC is glad to feature Lee's Moment of Clarity video installments. A comedian and social critic with a stellar resume: former contributor to The Onion, former staff writer for Huffington Post, featured commentary on MSNBC's Dylan Rattigan Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Eliot Spitzer Show, BBC's Newsnight, and ABC's Good Morning America. Lee has performed comedy all over the world including Canada, Australia, Spain, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Holland and is author of the bestselling political humor book "Moment of Clarity."  Try to keep up with Lee Camp at his web site.

Lee Camp and founder, Gabrielle at Lee's show at the Melody Inn, Indianapolis

Tesha Miller

     Tesha Miller is a freelance writer and blogger who has contributed works at reputable indie outlets, including Activist Post, Coto Report, Seismologik, The Plain Truth, Amped Status and The Greanville Post. Currently residing in West Virginia with her husband and three children, she has been greatly influenced by the social and environmental struggles encountered within the state. 

     Being the daughter of a retired coal miner and having suffered the loss of her grandfather due to a coal mining accident, Tesha's writing reflects a purpose instilled with a deep-seated sense of responsibility toward the working-class. Her work focuses on realizing economic equality, natural resource sustainability and social justice.  Follow Tesha on Twitter.

Dr. Guy McPherson

     Guy McPherson is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.  His blog focuses on the natural world, with a particular emphasis on the twin sides of our fossil-fuel addiction: (1) global climate change and (2) energy decline. Because these phenomena impact every aspect of life on Earth, specific topics range widely, and include philosophy, evolution, economics, humanity, politics, current events, and many aspects of the human condition.

     Guy quit his high-pay, low-work university job and moved to the country when he understood the costs of the non-negotiable American way of life: obedience at home, oppression abroad, and wholesale destruction of the living planet.  More at http://guymcpherson.com/ and learn more about him and his published works at his university website.

Apocaloptimists, Guy "Doc" McPherson and Gabrielle, somewhere in New Mexico...

Christopher Weller

     Christopher Weller is a writer and registered nurse from California, born and raised in Northeastern Ohio. He noticed the devastating effects of industrial collapse in the heartland, with the degrading economic stability of the Ohio steel mills, car plants and manufacturing left the area.  Raised in a loving Lutheran family, he was exposed to a sense of community and service to his fellow man.  In the Navy, he was an electrician, seeing half the world -- which brought him eventually to the west coast.
     After military service, he began to educate himself, finding passion for the Arts, Philosophy, History and the sciences.  Later, his desire to teach lead him to a college education to be an academic.  Completing a degree in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of California, Irvine, graduated Suma Cum Laude, completed the Honors program and Greek studies.
     On becoming a single parent, he was seduced into the mortgage and real estate.  An industry that soon led him to an understanding of the monetary and banking system and a true sense of how this world really works.  With the crash in 2008, his business was lost and his family lost their large house and fancy cars. Christopher explains, "The hidden blessings of this became an epiphany of a sort for me. During that time, all of my accumulated knowledge, and long abandoned protestantism, I found a new connection to the Earth.  Peak oil, corporate control of our politics, climate change and ecological collapse -- it goes on and on -- everything seemed to fall into place, painting a grim picture of the world that my children and the children of the world would inherit."
     "Chris incorporates the genres of classical literature, philosophy and contemporary thought into his work and he brings this compassionate therapy to his readers.  I am moved every time I read a new essay. Like a Dmitri Orlov or a Charles Eisenstein, Chris adds to our understanding and our ability to intellectually and spiritually grasp and digest the events that are taking place around us. " ~ Michael C. Ruppert

TRC Founder, Gabrielle Price is a freelance writer, photographer and news analyst who has contributed work to Seismologik, AmpedStatus, OWS Week, Repeace, Examiner, Healers United, JBIN and The Road Home Music Project online.  She began writing in high school and took the leap into social media and blogging during the Bush Administration, where her 'Gonzo' style of writing earned her the moniker, "Hunter S. Thompson with tits."  This was embraced as a compliment which was later echoed by a relation of Hunter's she met at a Big Lebowski Music Festival.  Gabrielle: "I almost quit. How do you top that?"  She took a year off in 2008-09 to open a photography studio, promote music and be a spiritual advisor.

After the BP oil disaster, her writing turned away from politics and toward environmental and human right's issues, where she still allows the Gonzo to come through as catharsis.  "I've found that my ranting actually helped others.  Since I don't answer to an editor, I am able to write things that most people find themselves unable to say...and I gravitate toward those fearless people who do the same.  These are frustrating times and I don't self-censor, but channel anger through my pen and my Gemini twin, kind of like the Good Doctor did with his alter ego[s].  The difference between me and Doc, aside from the tits and lack of  hallucinogens, is that my other side and I aren't at odds.  In fact, we're good friends."  Gabrielle is an Indiana native, gypsy soul, book collector, social critic, music lover and pop culture geek. Her 27 year-old daughter is in the fan art and illustration industry. Gabrielle is currently working on a documentary about the spiritual side of collapse, featuring contributor, Guy McPherson and others.  She's also working to finish her first book and currently living at a farm-share in Bloomington, Indiana [title will be announced in 2013]. Gabrielle hopes to one day own a net radio station to share 'news you can use' and her first love : music.

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